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Fall 2024 Town Halls!

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SERIES SPONSORS

 

Master Bridge Builders ($1,000 and up)

Stanford University

Dialogue Leaders ($500-$999)

Rotary Club of Palo Alto/University 

Political and Community Engagement (PACE)             program, Indiana University

Pat and Tom Sanders

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​​Friendship Facilitators ($100)

Housing:  A Home for All?

Embarcadero Media Group/Palo Alto Weekly

Aram James

Democracy: Voter Access and Turnout

Friends of Rotary

Aram James
 

In-Kind Donors

City of Bloomington, IN

City of Palo Alto, CA

Braver Angels, Bloomington and Palo Alto 

League of Women Voters, Bloomington and Palo Alto 

Monroe County Public Library, IN 

Rotary Clubs of Bloomington and Palo Alto/University

Second Aniversary Celebration!

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June 2024

2023 Fall Town Hall Series

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Town Hall Sponsors

SERIES SPONSORS

 

Master Bridge Builders ($1,000 and up)

Laurie and Michael McRobbie

Jane and Patrick Martin

Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce

Dialogue Leaders ($500-$999)

Mayor John Hamilton

Terry Godfrey

Rotary Club of Palo Alto/University 

Political and Community Engagement (PACE)             program, Indiana University

In-Kind Donors

City of Bloomington, IN

City of Palo Alto, CA

Community Access Television Services (CATS)

Hobee's California Restaurants

League of Women Voters of Palo Alto

Bridging Regional Divides Sponsors

Conversation Convenors ($250)

Rotary Club of Palo Alto

Bloomington Rotary Club

Friendship Facilitators ($100)

Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce

Race and Belonging Sponsors

Conversation Convenors ($250)

Silicon Valley NAACP

City Councilor Jim Sims & Mrs. Doris Sims

Friendship Facilitators ($100)

Lily Chiu

Joan Fantazia

Aram James

Climate Action Sponsors

Friendship Facilitators ($100)

Bloom Magazine

Palo Alto Weekly

Talk by Douglas Hofstadter

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Douglas R. Hofstadter, Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, will share thoughts on the first two Sibling Cities. He knows them well, having spent most of his childhood in Palo Alto and most of his adulthood in Bloomington. His Pulitzer-prize-winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, has had a considerable impact on people in many disciplines, ranging from philosophy to mathematics, artificial intelligence, music, and beyond.

Click on your city below to learn more from the library hosts:

Civil Discourse Launch

In February 2023, Sibling Cities launched its Civil Discourse program. The kick-off included mayors of inaugural cities Bloomington, IN, and Palo Alto, CA , along with Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades and former IU President & Stanford Dean Tom Ehrlich.

Both Town Halls and small group discussions using the Living Room Conversations platform will be held among residents of the two cities during the next year. Some kickoff attendeees participated in the first Living Room Conversations event afterward, and the response was enthusiastic! You can hear from participants and watch the Launch Event below.

First-Ever City Pair Kickoff!

“In this moment to have a group of mayors and cities and citizens come together and decide that we want to recognize ourselves institutionally and civilly as siblings, this is something to be excited about, something to rejoice in, and certainly lend support to.”

TARA VANDERVEER

Indiana University alumna and Stanford
Women's Basketball Head Coach

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“As a coach, one of the things that I really feel is the most important part of our team is the fact that we have a sisterhood, so if we can encourage sisterhood between Palo Alto and Bloomington I think that would be a great service.”

CORNELL WILLIAM BROOKS

Former NAACP President and professor
at Harvard University

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GUEST SPEAKERS

On 15, February 2022, the mayors of Bloomington, IN and Palo Alto, CA entered the first ever Sibling Cities agreement during a launch celebration. Former NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and Stanford Womens Basketball Head Coach Tara VanDerveer were featured speakers. You can watch the video of the event below!

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